rachel: just a reminder that i'll be hosting prime time all next week at 7 p.m. eastern, 6 p.m. central is. ♪ ♪ maria: good sunday morn, everyone. thanks so much for joining us. welcome to "sunday morning futures," i'm maria bartiromo. happy new year. it is a new day. congress returns to work tomorrow, and we officially kick off the midterm election year. coming up, the men hoping to take the gavel for the gop majority after this november's election. gop leader kevin mccarthy is here laying out the gop agenda as the supreme court takes up joe biden's vaccine mandates as he pleads to follow his rules.

>> for patients who still haven't gotten their kids vaccinated, please get them vaccinated. look out for their interests here. it's the best way to protect them. and for parents of kids too young to be vaccinated, surround your kids with people who are vaccinated. there's a lot of reason to be hopeful in 2020. maria: well, thank you, but, of course, it is 2022, president biden. and the teachers unions are once again calling the hots, voting against -- the shots, voting against in-person learning in chicago. new school closings in place in chicago and some parts of san francisco. >> right now going to schools puts us at risk, puts our students and families at risk of contracting the krone a virus. coronavirus. maria: coming up, governor christie nome is here with south dakota's answer to mandate school closings and inflation ahead of her state of the state

this upcoming week. plus, we are still fighting covid two years in with omicron ripping across the country. yet joe biden's cdc and fda are telling us to isolate, ride it out. is a covid cover-up underway? why are affordable, generic flu medications not part of the protocols to treat these flu symptom? plus, what we are now learning about their results. dr. pierre kory will join me on big pharma's influence in watch -- in washington and why they expect to make billions on vaccines in the next two years. will the money spent on lobbying go up as well? plus, it was literally a theater on capitol hill this week. >> we're privileged to have a contribution from one of the great creative talents of our time, lin-manuel miranda. ♪ someday, someday ♪♪ maria: yes, the show must go on

complete with broadway singers helping nancy pelosi and the democrats target americans as terrorists. coming up, wisconsin senator ron johnson on the capitol theatrics this week and whether it's all a ploy to stop donald trump from running in 2024. the senator's breaking news this morning as well on how he will continue to fight corruption in washington. all that right here, right now on "sunday morning futures." ♪ ♪ maria: and first this morning, congress returns to work tomorrow morning with the 117th congress reconvening and the 2022 legislative calendar set for 21 voting weeks before the november midterm election. the gop is widely expected to take the majority in the house in the november races, and the man expected to be the speaker of the house, current gop leader kevin mccarthy, joins us now. congressman, good to see you this morning. happy new year to you.

>> happy new year and welcome back, maria. maria: thank you so much. what will be the agenda for this second session of congress this upcoming week and in the coming weeks? >> well, the very sad part, the democrats are in the majority. i mean, think about this. coming up this month will be the one-year anniversary of one-party rule. what do we have? we have covid spiking, closed schools and a cripplinged economy. and the democrats' number one focus is still exactly where they've always been, h.r. 1, to change the election laws to rig an election to give them an ability to win when they should not. to put a speech czar to tell us what to say, use campaign finance to fund these elections, to weigh the federal election committee to one-sided on the democratic side. we've been able to stop that. it's over in the senate, but you watch what they did last week when we were out, tried to politicize january 6th. and everybody believes what

happened on january 6th was wrong beyond wrong. but as just you showed that clip, speaker pelosi and some are doing the research, using "ham hamilton," a fundraiser, they say, that was used back in october 2020 for act blue. it really should be a different focus about securing our border, getting it -- small business back to work. make it easier, not harder to open a small business. crime throughout this country. let's make our streets, our neighborhoods, our schools safer again. and more importantly, what the republicans have to offer, a parents' bill of rights. let's make sure our parents have a say in our kids' education. maria: congressman, is in any way that the republicans will be able to stop the democrats pushing through this h.r. 1? everyone we have spoken with telling us that this voting bill is an effort to keep the democrats in charge forever. what are you going to do about it? >> well, maria, you're 100%

correct. it is a gamed system that this is all they're looking at. remember, h.r. 1, that means this is their most important bill. they did it congress before, we stopped them in the last congress. it's sitting over in the senate. the only way that they can pass it is to change the rules of the senate, to change the filibuster. but fortunately, we have a few senators over there along with all the republicans who believe that is wrong. that is where the emphasis needs to be, to be able to not let them break the system, to change the system when it comes to elections and make them unfair in the process. maria: congressman, i want to get your take on what this whole hype was this week around the january 6th year. ranking member rodney davis sent a letter to speaker nancy pelosi unveiling new evidence, he says, that pelosi obstructed access to records relating to the security preparedness of the capitol on january 6th. we have that letter that rodney

davis sense. i want to get your take on what nancy pelosi and the democrats did. did they get out of the way and not stop the rioting? intentionally? >> well, rodney davis' letter is correct. he is the ranking member on house administration that oversees the capitol. and when you watch what nancy pelosi has done, she's politicized this process with not getting to the two main questions; why was the capitol so ill-prepared that day, and how do we make sure that never happens again. what rodney is asking for here is the communications between the sergeant at arms and the speaker. and lo and behold, the speaker says that will not come forward. so here she creates a committee unheard of in the past where she does not allow the minority to appoint any republicans to this committee. she hand picks who they are, denies jim banks from being the ranking republican on this committee, and now she's denying

the information that can get us to the answer. she holds individuals who even work with the committee in contempt, but what does she do to herself with that information? rodney is on the right past here, and we've also had the general come in and make 106 recommendations to make the capitol safer. that has not been the case. on the senate side, you had a bipartisan, republican-democrat, two different committees look at this and watched failure after failure. we continue to do the research and the investigation. jim banks, jim jordan and those who were supposed to be appointed to that committee, we have sat with the capitol police, and we have learned a tremendous amount of information that they were ill-prepared that day, that the information that had been given to people had not been passed on to prepare for this. never we warned on the republican side that this was even possible. so there's a lot of questions here. and if speaker pelosi -- and remember who she appointed to the january 6th committee. the chair says she is off limits on this, but i think there's questions that need to be answer

ad. maria: so have you heard back from her in terms of providing evidence as why this occurred and why the capitol was so unprepared? >> we have not heard back. all we've heard back from her attorney telling us that they will not be providing that information. and this is the difference. we're one year away. if we are fortunate enough to change the course of history and become the majority, we will have subpoena power, and we can hold people accountable to make sure the capitol is safe, but also to make sure why is the attorney general going after parents who go to school board meetings? why did afghanistan and americans still sitting there, why did that process happen? there are many places that we can hold this administration accountable to get the information that america needs and wants. maria: so are you planning to have new investigations, new probes into some of this wrongdoing, some of the corruption that is on full display that the american people see every day around hunter biden, around the way they've handled the border?

are you going to be upping investigations should you take the majority? >> we are already looking into the investigation. we're asking part of this letter that a rodney -- preserve that information. we have done that when it comes to the decision in afghanistan, along the border, irs, releasing americans' tax returns out to the public. there are many areas that we need to hold them accountable. first and foremost, if we are fortunate to be able to earn the trust of the american people and earn the majority, we will secure this border to stop the human trafficking and the drugs flowing across. we'll make it easier to open a small business, not harder. we'll make america energy independent again, gasoline prices lower to be able to manufacture here in america. we will pass the parents' bill of rights. this is just the start, but at the same time this administration with one-party rule in one year has no accountability, and we will be able to hold them accountable and get america back on the

right track. that is why i'm so optimistic about the opportunity for the future. maria: so let's talk about the future. i want to go through the midterm months ahead as well as the primaries beginning in march. now, we know that 25 house democrats are not seeking re-election. looking at the 2022 midterm election calendar, congressman, how many seats do you believe that the gop can turn over? what kind of a majority do you expect? >> well, maria, there's only a five-seat majority for the democrats, the lowest it's been in a hundred years. we have redistricting going on. that doesn't affect the senate, but in the house. so some districts have not even had their lines drawn yet. but that number 25 is a very big number for democrat retirements. in 2010 when we won the majority, 17 democrats retired. already 25. i expect that number to be up to over 30 democrat retirements, because they see what the future holds, and they see the numbers.

our recruiting is better than ever before. the number of conservatives running across, conservative women and others. and remember in the last election why everybody said we predicted we'd lose 15 seats. we beat 15 democrats. and every democrat lost to a republican woman, a republican minority or a republican veteran. we need people to join with us to be able to fire nancy pelosi. if your viewers want to join, just go to firepelosi.com and help us win the majority, but help us turn this country around. it's not going to be -- maria: so, congressman -- >> -- it has to be earned. maria: yep. so you think you can turn how many seats? it's been talked about 25 up to 30, what's your estimate? >> well, the lines have not been drawn yet. there's going to be fewer competitive seats, but my goal is to win the majority. if we are able to win a majority, that's how we're able to govern. we don't know all the lines. there's 25 democrats retired. we want to earn enough that we have a governing majority. that means getting in the realm

of 20 and higher. if we are fortunate enough to win 35 republican seats, that would be the largest republican majority in more than a hundred years. maria: congressman, we're going to be watching. we hope you'll come back soon to walk us through as the time goes on. thank you so much, sir. we will be watching. congressman ken mccarthy. >> -- kevin mccarthy. >> thank you, maria. maria: we will see you soon. coming up, south dakota governor christie nome has a preview of next week's state of the state in south dakota. the rancher herself weighing in on the rising price of meat in joe biden's inflationary economy. kristi noem is next. ♪ now i'm ready for someone to call me mom. at northwestern mutual, our version of financial planning helps you live your dreams today. mission control, we are go for launch. at num, she's eatingal, our verthe rocket.ancial

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governor glenn youngkin with me on "mornings with maria" over on fox business after his november victory in virginia. he prioritized education. south dakota governor kristi noem is running for her own re-election in in this upcoming november, but first she will deliver her state of the state address in south dakota this upcoming week. she joins me now with a preview. governor, good morning to you. it is wonderful to see you this morning. >> good morning. happy new year, maria. maria: and to you. glenn youngkin credited education as the top issue in virginia. ahead of your state of the state this week, what do you see as the top priority for the people of south dakota? >> well, in south dakota it's defending their freedom. the biggest threat we're seeing is out of the federal government. so i will be talking in my state of the state about addressing critical race theory and also making sure that we're protecting girls' sports, again, with the strongest law in the nation already in south dakota. only girls playgirls' sports,

been play girls' sports, and then also making sure we're dealing with our historic revenues that we have, and south dakota's in the fight protecting our people from making sure that they don't have to comply with federal vaccine mandates. so there's a lot of things that are going very, very well in south dakota, and i think it's because of our conservative approach to business and protecting people's lives and their social decisions that they make for their families. i think it's incredibly important that a we tell that story. maria: and, of course, the economy is doing well. i'm going to get into the job creation as well, but let's talk covid for a while. you've been giving out free testing for over a year. you just ordered an additional million tests. joe biden said the nation was closer to ever to declaring independence from covid, and we just saw the highest number of cases on record last week. we're expecting 5 million people to call out sick this upcoming week because of omicron.

>> yeah. you know, the federal government and joe biden have mandated vaccines, yet they tell the states that it's up to us to deal with covid. for over a year, south dakota has been providing free tests to our citizens, and this next week we will insure that every single is citizen has access to a free test in their home communities. that is far above and beyond what the federal government has delivered. joe biden consistently makes promises, we deliver. and i think that really is the story that has resonated throughout the last couple of years. we trusted our people. we've given them personal responsibility to make the best decisions for their families, and we've supported them with resources. we kept our economy open, we're benefiting from that. our kids have been in classrooms, and our state of the state address in dealing with covid and dealing with this pandemic will tell the story of the examples of success and benefits and profits that our businesses and our families have seen because of that approach. maria: well, i mean, young

people, students have been the real losers. american children are disadvantaged as a result of the remote learning, and look what's going on in chicago right now. the teachers union are just running the show, rolling over joe biden. >> absolutely. it is absolutely it. and i think what is amazing and so many people are watching what's happening across the country, and they're waking up. i love seeing these parents show up at school board meetings pushing back on teachers unions that are putting themselves first above our children. so in south dakota our kids have been in the classroom the entire time this last year. we are the state that our kids lost the least amount in this last pandemic in educational opportunities and successes. our kids have done the best, and heavy done the best because they've been in the classrooms together with their teachers. they've been learning and excelling. maria: governor, stay with us. we want to slip in a short break, but i want to talk more about rising inflation, why the biden administration or is blaming the meat conglomerates

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>> the president, secretary of agriculture have both spoken to be what we have seen as the greed of meat conglomerates. that is an area when people are trying to buy a pound of meat, two pounds of meat, ten pounds of meat, it is -- the prices are higher. maria: the price of meat is up 16% year-over-year. i am back with south dakota governor kristi noem x that was white house press secretary jen psaki last month blaming the big meat producers for prices skyrocketing 16% in the last year. governor, your reaction. >> well, they're blaming the right people, but they're doing the wrong thing.

they should do exactly what president trump did. he charged his department of justice to investigate the packers and go after them and make sure they're antitrust, anti-competitive laws are being enforced and followed by these packers. instead what joe biden is doing and what she's talking about is attacking capitalism, attacking our free markets, and that's not american. and so i would caution people, yes, we have a huge issue with our packers, a huge issue with rising meat prices. but what joe biden is doing is trying to divert away from the real solution and to attack our way of life here in this country. so i'm going to keep pushing him. i led a coalition of governors to send a letter and to raise awareness with the white house that we are holding them accountable to restarting this investigation that president trump started and to make sure that they really do solve the problem, not just talk about it in a way to rip down our country and everything that it stands on. maria: well, i think you make a great point about capitalism because it's not just meat, governor.

look at the prices of food in america today. inflation is skyrocketing. we heard jay powell say let's remove the word "transitory." it's time to put it to rest. what about the idea that we've got all of this money sloshing and -- sloshing around this economy chasing too few goods? you've got prices for food up across the board after a $1.9 trillion covid package last march and efforts to continue spending more money with the build back better agenda. >> and, maria, i have talk for years about how our food supply is a national security issue, how when another country grows our food for us and provides our food for us, that they control us. and that's what i'm concerned about, is the way this administration is attacking american enterprises and businesses and farmers and ranchers and not really dealing with the real issue, and that's the control of out-of-country businesses, china controlling our food markets. one of the biggest problems id had during the pandemic was a

china-owned processing facility right here in south dakota. and they didn't want to work with me because they didn't have to and because this administration didn't make them do that. so i really think it's a big concern. people get worried about a virus, i get worried as well about how scary it gets in this country when people go to their grocery stores and there isn't any good there and realize that another country controls it because we have an administration that allowed the other countries to have control over those markets and didn't address the real problems that we have within our antitrust and anti-competitive laws on the books. maria: yeah. i think this is a great point because we cannot rely on production of goods that we need like prescription drugs, like food made outside of the country, particularly in china. now, people are flocking to south dakota. south dakota was in the top three in the nation for people moving in from other states in 2021. i know you're going to address this in your state of the state next week. tell me about the economics of south dakota right now and why

you're seeing an influx of people. >> well, you know, people don't come to south dakota for our beaches, maria, or for our weather in january, but they are coming to south dakota because they want to live somewhere where the government respects them, where they can have freedom to have the way to raise their families like america intended. so our typical growth in our state government revenue is about 5% a year. south dakota had over 15% growth. we tripled our average growth in the last year, and that is directly because of economic principles that we held close and followed with the foundation of this country. remember, we don't have an income tax, no corporate income tax, no personal property tax. all we have is a 4.5 cent sales tax. and because our economy is the best economy in the nation, our state government and our state will benefit from the ability to invest into long-term infrastructure projects that'll make a difference for the next 50-60 years. we're putting historic money

into reserves, into trust funds. we've paid off bonds and debt and now we are building railroads, fixing dams, high-speed internet access to every home in the state. it's amazing what we're able to do because we followed conservative principles in how we run our economy. maria: well, so much so that your name is being bandied about as a potential for a candidate for vice president. are you looking for higher office, governor? >> i'm looking for south dakota to continue to lead the nation as an example. i love our state. i have no intention to leave our state. our people are fantastic. we've got a lot of good work we can do here for the next several years while i have the chance to maybe be governor if they trust me to get me reelected and have the chance to work with them for the next four years. maria: all right, governor, good to have you this morning. thank you so much, south dakota governor kristi noem joining us this morning in that exclusive. quick break, and you just heard kevin america california

think -- mccarthy tell us he is expecting up to 30 statements in the house in november, can they take the senate as well? my next guest is working to do just that. wisconsin senator ron johnson is here with breaking news this morning, that he is running for re-election to try to continue to crack down on corruption. he will join me next live. back in a moment. ♪ ♪

♪ maria: welcome back. we have breaking news this morning. wisconsin senator ron johnson

will seek re-election in this upcoming midterm election. his op-ed confirming the news was released in the "wall street journal" about an hour ago, and he joins me right now for his first live interview since breaking this news that he will seek a third term in november. he sits on the foreign relations committee. he joins me now with more on that news and what gets done in the senate this year. senator, it's good to see you. thanks very much for joining me this morning. >> good morning, maria. happy new year. maria: and to you. what are your plans? why seek re-election? tell me what you're hoping to accomplish. >> well, there are many factors. it wasn't an easy decision. i think probably the easiest way to put it is i love america dearly. i love the american people, i love the folks in wisconsin, and i think this country's in trouble. i think democrats in power in washington put us on a very dangerous path, and i think i'm in a position to help, help improve things. it just boils down, it's that

simple. we need to restore competence in so many institutions within, throughout america whether it's in governmental agencies, whether it's in our media, within big tech. people have lost confidence. and the only way i can see restoring confidence is we need to ask a lot of questions, we need to get some answers, we need accountability. we need the truth. and unfortunately, the truth is being censored today at an alarming, a very disconcerting rate. and so i'm just one of those truth tellers. i ask tough questions, i try and get answers, but when i tell the truth, the truths that the media elite, the governing elite don't want to hear, i get censored, vilified, but it doesn't deter me. i think we need people that are willing to seek the truth. maria: well, we certainly do. you have been a truth teller around covid, the origins of covid, the origins of the russia hoax, the impeachment of donald

trump, the list goes on and on. tell me about the fbi, because confidence has plummeted in the fbi after they worked with the hillary clinton campaign, we believe, to spread false rumor of trump colluding with russia. what happened at the fbi, in your view? >> well, corruption at the top. my eyes were opened up as we were investigating hillary clinton's e-mail scandal, and then james comey's exoneration e-mail. and that same cast of characters that edited his exoneration e-mail just transferred into the crossfire hurricane, that corrupt investigation of president trump. knowing full well that the steele dossier containing russia disinformation, yet they proceeded with that corrupt investigation, put america through four years of political turmoil. maria, it's an unsustainable state of affairs when in 2016 half the country just refused to accept that the election results is legitimate and here four

years later now the other half is not accepting the election result. we need to restore confidence in our election systems in so many agencies of the government, but also within institutions of media and big tech as well. maria: well, we need accountability, that is for sure. on the number of these issues, i want to get your take on what went on last week -- this last week, about the theatrics around january 6th and the one-year marking of the january 6th protest and riots. she had, you know, nancy pelosi had broadway stars singing. it was a whole to-do. is this a ploy to cover up what you're talking about in terms of this disastrous agenda and governance from the biden administration? >> first, let's state the truth. i don't know anybody that didn't condemn the violence on january 6th. i did while it was occurring. i repeatedly condemned it

forcefully. i thought it was repugnant. the violence, i thought the racial slurs were repulsive. but at the same time, i recognized that tens of thousands of other americans doesn't take -- didn't storm the capitol, didn't partake in any violence, came there to exercise their first amendment rights, and they did assemble peacefully. that is their right. and so i defended those people that assembled peacefully. i also pushed back on the false narrative, and it was a false narrative, that there were thousands of armed insurrectionists. there weren't. that is not what an armed insurrection would look like. we would not have been able to get back in session a few hours after, after the rioting occurred and complete the task of counting electoral volts. but that was a narrative that, quite honestly, served both sides. anybody that was responsible for capitol security was pretty well happy to sign on to thousands of armed insurrectionists because what could they have possibly done -- maria: yeah. >> and the commission right now

in the house is a joke. they're not asking what nancy pelosi knew and when she knew it. i've written dozens of oversight letters asking the kind of questions that should be asked. i've sent my staff in to review the video. over 300 people entered the capitol through a door that was opened. no violence, they just walked in an open door. manufacture many yeah -- maria: yeah. >> america deserves to hear the full story. the house committee's not providing that full story. we deserve those answers. maria: we want to get into the misinformation around covid as well, but before we do, let me get your take on the build back better agenda. there were reports this weekend that joe manchin is basically taking the whole thing off the table saying that he is pulling his $1.8 trillion spending compromise. is it dead in the water right now? what are you expecting? >> well, first of all, god bless joe manchin. i can't tell you how many of my supporters tell me to tell joe

manchin they are praying for him as they witness how the democrats are abusing him. so, you know, that's not the way to get somebody on your side, that's for sure. so i appreciate the fact that joe manchin has stood by his pledge not to blow up the senate, eliminate the filibuster. he's concerned about inflation, as am i. and let's face it, the $1.9 trillion covid relief, the partisan covid relief package, we have a trillion dollars left unspent, $700 billion not scheduled to be spent, and that's inflationary. the increase in prices is wiping out whatever wage gains americans are realizing. and then, let's face it, the very people the democrats purport to want to help -- retirees on a fixed income, people who are the working poor -- they are hit hardest by inflation. jeff bezos, mark zuckerberg, the big tech giants, they're not impacted by inflation. maria: yeah. >> they are benefiting well from

all the shutdowns and a move toward, you know, so much greater use of the internet. maria: well, senator, you've been a truth teller on covid as well, and we're going to take a break and get back to that. you were censored because you actually identified drugs that can treat covid. we'll talk about the covid cover-up, the number of omicron cases is spiking right now, and yet we are being told by in the administration to isolate, ride through it despite viable therapeutics on the market right now. why is this government and social media covering up treatments? dr. pierre kory will join the conversation. he testified before senator johnson's committee about repurposed drugs. he will join the conversation next. ♪

>> we shouldn't be satisfied with what we have now, we should be looking at therapeutics, we should be emphasizing those. we should be looking at areas of the world where covid is not prevalent like on the western

coast of africa and say why is it not prevalent there? well, for one thing, they take anti-malarials like hydroxychloroquine. we should be finding out why is that going on? is that just a quince debs? -- coincidence? abler member tin, some of the other things that have been extremely effective. let's not have tunnel vision and say just everybody get the vaccine and stomp our feet and say we're going to do everything we can to make sure everybody gets a jab. maria: welcome back. that is another truth teller, former neurosurgeon, hud secretary dr. ben ben carson on this program last month discussing the success that many drugs have been having for covid, and they've been on the market for years. there are expectations of millions of americans calling out sick this upcoming week as the number of omicron covid cases spike. the u.s. recorded it highest day, almost one million new cases, on friday after reaching a record on monday.

yet this administration continues to e fuse to acknowledge treatments that have worked such as anti-malarial drugs. they are cheap, they are generic, they're off patent. why is the administration telling us to ride it out and be sick for two weeks, stopping our lives for two weeks instead of treating these flu symptom at the first sign of infection? joining me right now is dr. pierre kory, president and chief medical officer of the front-line covid-19 critical care alliance. he joins myself and senator ron johnson. dr. kory, thanks very much for being here. what do you think is going on in. >> well, what you see is the product of a system, right? the system is entirely structured, and it's scary how structured. it's acting entirely within the interests of for-profit pharmaceutical corporations. there is no system for accepting and approving generic drugs and, in fact, it's almost like there's a blockade that's set up. they just don't approve them. they don't assess them.

and in this pandemic, those drugs have actually shown to be the most effective. they're used all around the world. 25% of the planet is using abler member tin in covid, yet they're being ignored. the system will only listen to large, double blind, randomized controls done by big pharma, so these generic drugs get ignored and the tragedy is we have not had an early treatment recommended by the government. it's because they've been waiting for the approvals for novel, patented drugs. and the two that just got approval, one study, one and done with these pharmaceutical companies. and meanwhile, you have the generic drugs which have dozens of trials, and they don't get approval. it is absolutely absurd. and these drugs that just got approved, one doesn't work. india just canceled their order for it because they know it doesn't work, and the other one is highly toxic. so the absurdity and the damage on the american people by a broken system, we need to fix

this. when people are dying because they're being deprived of highly effective, cheap, widely available drugs that do not present as obscene profits to the pharmaceutical companies. maria: that is disgusting. i know for a fact that hydroxychloroquine works to treat covid. senator, i want to ask you if this is all about money. big farming ma is the largest lobbying spender in terms of monies spent on lobbying -- big pharma. is this administration trying to insure that these big pharma companies make $90 billion on vaccines and people don't go for the cheaper alternatives which are off patent? >> i don't know what other explanation there really would be. these drugs are approved, they're just not recommended for this particular application. so doctors have off-label prescription rights. people like dr. kory, you know, doctors that have the courage and the passion to treat patients, i'd much rather listen

to them than the folks in the ivory tower in our agencies that don't treat patients and just make these pronouncements. maria, remember, i'm the champion of right to try. right to try allows patients and their doctors to actually utilize a medicine that is not fully fda approved like the vaccines, you know in give people that a freedom. but what is such a scandal is you have these approved generic drugs, they are safe. the safety profile is remarkable on these things, and yet their use is being blocked and sabotaged by people like fauci, collins, walensky and the biden administration. and i agree with doctors like dr. kory who said probably half a million people in america might have needlessly died for lack of treatment. and let's face it, what -- isn't it always early detection allows for early treatment, gets better results for every other disease except for covid. it's a real head scratcher. it's a scandal. maria: unbelievable.

dr. kory, it certainly feels that way. tell me about the safety and the effectiveness of things like hydroxychloroquine, i'veer member tin and there was also another one. >> all three medications have been around for decades. they have unparalleled safety profiles. and the efficacy signals around them are now inarguable, unquestionable. there's such -- they sit atop large evidence bases. and i have to tell you, myself and my organization, we've spent the whole pandemic trying to disseminate the evidence of efficacy from doctors to patients to people, and they are listening. and my organization, flcc.net, we have our protocols, our organization and myself are daily inundated with people who are in despair because they are sick, and they cannot get access to the medicines. most doctors won't prescribe them, and now the pharmacies won't fill because the agencies which literally are acting in

lockstep with pharma are sending threatening letters scaring doctors and pharmacists. it's a war out here. maria: yeah. if you win a third term, senator, are you going to investigate anthony fauci? >> well, we already are. the fact of the matter is that under foia requests there are over 4,000 pages of e-mails between him and people like francis collins. we're getting them in distributes and drabs -- dribs and drabs. that itself is a scandal, the fact that the agencies aren't being transparent with congress or the american public. no, we'll get to the bottom of his corruption. maria: okay. all right. i want to take a short break. when we come back, i want to ask you, dr. kory, what people should do right now if they actually have covid, they got the omicron and what they should be doing to minimize this -- things with some certain products that we may have in the house already. it's coming up next, stay with us. ♪ or ache and burn!

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maria: welcome back. i am back with senator ron johnson and dr. pierre kory, specialist on the front lines of this pandemic. dr. kory, if someone out will there has covid, they got omicron, what are the best ways to treat this right now? we've been talking about ivermectin and hydroxychloroquine, and i know you feel we need to take that early in the infection, but what else? i'm hearing about supplements, vitamin d, vitamin c. give us your sense of what we should be doing to protect ourselves. >> that's what my organization has done. from the beginning, we've put together protocols for the hospital, long haul and early treatment. early treatment avoids the need for the other protocols. if you go to flccc.necessary e -- net, we have first line, second line medications. some of them are prescription,

almost all are generic, and as you just mentioned, quite a few are easily available with known efficacy. there are numerous trials supporting them. and we put together those protocols as a group of highly experienced specialists, and they're very effective. so, you know with, to give your listeners and viewers agency, they should visit our web site, look at the protocols, try to use, you know, what they can get access to because that's the last thing we're going -- maria: like what? >> -- we're prevented access. maria: yeah. like what, doctor? tell me a few -- >> ivermectin -- maria: strengthening our immune system. >> okay. so mouthwash and backerrings. that's -- garglings. that's been roundly attacked. there are trials showing that it absolutely reduces the severity and insures a milder course and avoidance of hospitalization. the virus is so concentrated in the mouth and nose, if you use these mouth mouthwashes, you can

have a easier course. like yo said, zinc, melatonin, all of it shows that you'll do better. maria: all right. we will leave it there. dr. kory, great to have you. senator johnson, you've been censored because you've talked about this. i'll be on "mornings with maria" tomorrow with the a.g. of missouri to talk about scotus on the vaccine mandate and then a -- hello, for the last few years, i've been a little obsessed with chasing the big idaho potato truck. but it's not like that's my only interest. i also love cooking with heart-healthy, idaho potatoes. always look for the grown in idaho seal.

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